By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 12/9/2016 Altice says it's "exploring the possibility of an initial public offering (IPO) of a minority interest in its U.S. operations, Altice USA," a move that would help ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/8/2016 The number of telcos saying they are extremely confident about meeting targets for the rollout of "high-priority" virtualized functions has fallen over the last year, ...

By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 12/7/2016
In a geographic area that is closer to Greenland than much of mainland Canada, Meshnet, a service provider in Iqualuit, Nunavut, is announcing a new partnership ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/7/2016 French telco incumbent Orange says technically there is nothing to prevent LoRa technology from being used in licensed spectrum bands but that existing equipment and ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/7/2016 ROME -- Executive Summit -- SD-WAN technology is either critical or important for telecom operators looking to automate their operations and reduce service costs, ...

By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-chief, 12/9/2016 Altice says it's "exploring the possibility of an initial public offering (IPO) of a minority interest in its U.S. operations, Altice USA," a move that would help ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/8/2016 The number of telcos saying they are extremely confident about meeting targets for the rollout of "high-priority" virtualized functions has fallen over the last year, ...

By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 12/7/2016
In a geographic area that is closer to Greenland than much of mainland Canada, Meshnet, a service provider in Iqualuit, Nunavut, is announcing a new partnership ...

By Iain Morris, News Editor, 12/7/2016 French telco incumbent Orange says technically there is nothing to prevent LoRa technology from being used in licensed spectrum bands but that existing equipment and ...

This report discusses how OSS needs to evolve to meet the needs of hybrid NFV networks. It explores interactions between OSS and NFV MANO and examines the various open source initiatives that are attempting to define how OSS must change to support the new, dynamic environment of NFV.

Fog computing is the latest potential disruptor for CSPs and their technology suppliers. This report presents Heavy Reading's current thinking on fog computing and its likely role in the development of next-generation networks and services.

This report explores virtualization for cable and the four use cases that appear to be most prominent in the industry's agenda. Included is an analysis of the supplier market, including the latest products for virtual CCAP (vCCAP).

Bart Vercammen, VP of Product Management at Technicolor, talks about how everyone is demanding faster broadband speed every year and how Technicolor's technology is responding in this demanding industry.

Mobile revenues are declining. Digicel, a player in the Caribbean telecommunications/entertainment space, has found a new way to engage customers and drive revenue. John Quinn, CTO of Digicel, shared with us its story at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016)

ETSI has created an Industry Specification Group to work on Next Generation Protocols (NGP ISG), looking at evolving communications and networking protocols to provide the scale, security, mobility and ease of deployment required for the connected society of the 21st century. The NGP ISG will identify the requirements for next generation protocols and network ...

Huawei's new CloudVPN Integration Services Solution reduces the complexity of enterprise-leased lines. The new solution was a joint development between Huawei and ten other vendors, including Fortinet and Infoblox.

Casa Systems' CEO, Jerry Guo, and Light Reading's Alan Breznick discuss the debut of Casa's vCCAP at this year's Cable-Tec Expo, along with the company's innovative virtualization platform, Axyom, that paves the way for the next generation of intelligent multi-service delivery.

Communications service providers can end the digital transformation paradox by shifting their focus towards being subscriber-centric instead of being network-centric, Nominum's VP of Global Marketing, Brian Metzger, tells Scott Bicheno of Telecoms.com.

Join us for an in-depth interview between Steve Saunders of Light Reading and Alexis Black Bjorlin of Intel as they discuss the release of the company's Silicon Photonics platform, its performance, long-term prospects, customer expectations and much more.

Level 3 Communications' Chief Security Officer Dale Drew says service providers, manufacturers and even consumers must combine to halt massive DDoS attacks using IoT devices in botnets. The solution he has in mind includes reputation-based routing by the service provider but also more secure endpoint devices and greater consumer awareness.

Chris Novak, director of the Verizon Enterprise Solutions Risk Team, explains that enterprises who don't conduct a thorough audit of their assets often leave some things unprotected because they don't know they exist. Many times these unprotected assets are part of corporate M&A activity but left unshielded they can become a hacker's playground, he tells Light ...

Adrian Scrase, CTO at standards body ETSI, talks about the various initiatives and specifications developments related to NFV, 5G and NGP (next-generation protocols) that will underpin next-gen networks.

GeSI is a global e-Sustainability Initiative organization bringing together 40 big multinational companies around the world. According to GeSI's report, information and communication technology can make the world more sustainable. Luis Neves, chairman of GeSI, shared with us his opinion at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016).

Mobile revenues are declining. Digicel, a player in the Caribbean telecommunications/entertainment space, has found a new way to engage customers and drive revenue. John Quinn, CTO of Digicel, shared with us its story at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016)

Altibox is the biggest fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) player and the largest provider of video and TV in Norway. They started out with zero customers in 2002. Now they have close to half a million households and companies attached to their FTTH business. Nils Arne, CEO of Altibox shared with us their story and insight on 5G at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016).

GeSI is a global e-Sustainability Initiative organization bringing together 40 big multinational companies around the world. According to GeSI's report, information and communication technology can make the world more sustainable. Luis Neves, chairman of GeSI, shared with us his opinion at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016).

Mobile revenues are declining. Digicel, a player in the Caribbean telecommunications/entertainment space, has found a new way to engage customers and drive revenue. John Quinn, CTO of Digicel, shared with us its story at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016)

Altibox is the biggest fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) player and the largest provider of video and TV in Norway. They started out with zero customers in 2002. Now they have close to half a million households and companies attached to their FTTH business. Nils Arne, CEO of Altibox shared with us their story and insight on 5G at Ultra-broadband Forum (UBBF2016).

At Ultra-broadband Forum, Houlin Zhao, Secretary General of ITU, discussed how important it is for countries, companies and everybody to be working together to help to build the broadband and digital economies (UBBF2016).

ETSI has created an Industry Specification Group to work on Next Generation Protocols (NGP ISG), looking at evolving communications and networking protocols to provide the scale, security, mobility and ease of deployment required for the connected society of the 21st century. The NGP ISG will identify the requirements for next generation protocols and network ...

Digital Object Architecture provides a basic information infrastructure that can facilitate interoperability between or among different systems, processes, and other information resources, including different identity management systems. Digital objects are networked objects that are named by digital object identifiers and instantiated by an infrastructure service ...

Huawei's new CloudVPN Integration Services Solution reduces the complexity of enterprise-leased lines. The new solution was a joint development between Huawei and ten other vendors, including Fortinet and Infoblox.

Even when there's a strong pipeline of female talent in the comms industry, it tends to leak all the way to the top. McKinsey & Company says women experience pipeline leakage at three primary points: being unable to enter, being stuck in the middle or being locked out of the top. Each pipeline pain point presents its own challenges, but also opportunities to stop the leak. Wireless operator Sprint is making a conscious effort to improve its own pipeline from new recruits to the C-suite, and it wants the rest of the industry to do the same. In this Women in Comms radio show, WiC Board Member and Sprint Vice President of Enterprise Sales Nelly Pitocco will give us her take on the industry's pipeline challenges. Pitocco, who joined Sprint in May and has spent 20 years in the comms industry, will also offer solutions, share how Sprint is tackling the challenge within its own organization and take your questions live on air.

Six different communications service providers join to debate their visions of the future CSP, following a landmark presentation from AT&T on its massive virtualization efforts and a look back on where the telecom industry has been and where it's going from two industry veterans.